Word: macaulay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Perhaps no modern writer has approximated the simplicity of Lord Macaulay, the Whig historian of England, in his famous analysis of those two contending forces which have governed and disputed alternately since the beginning of democratic processes...
Wealthy estates brought riches to institutions, individuals. Steelmaster Charles Michael Schwab bequeathed the bulk of his unlisted wealth to his brother, Edward, his sister, Gertrude Barry, and the children of his late brother, Joseph. Genevieve Brady Macaulay, made a Papal Duchess for her philanthropy by Pope Pius XI, left $1,000,000 in cash to Husband William J. Babington Macaulay, Irish Minister...
Cardinal Pacelli visited the U. S. "personally and privately" in autumn, 1936. The late Mrs. Nicholas Brady (later Macaulay) was his hostess at Manhasset, L. I. He lunched with the Roosevelts at Hyde Park, addressed the National Press Club in Washington, went to Philadelphia and Boston, toured by air as far west as San Francisco. First Pope in history to have personal knowledge of the U. S., Pius XII has cousins in Flushing and Jordan...
...relaxation Elizabeth Bowen likes movies, music (swing as well as Beethoven), long walks, small, gay dinner parties. A poised and witty hostess, she knows many people, but her close friends are fellow writers: H. G. Wells, who lives nearby, Virginia Woolf, T. S. Eliot, Rose Macaulay...
Best (though not the best written) biography of Macaulay since George Otto Trevelyan's (Macaulay's nephew), published in 1876, is Lord Macaulay (University of Oklahoma Press, $3), by Richmond Croom Beatty, a 40-year-old professor at Vanderbilt University. Outstanding is its fairness, its reconstruction of Macaulay's times. Macaulay's spectacular progress, says Biographer Beatty, came mainly from a powerful tail wind: the hurricane force of the rising industrial middle class, with which he unequivocally aligned himself against the land-owning Tory aristocrats. His limitations came from the fact that he identified "material progress...